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O, Olive, How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways! 21 reasons to love one of the world’s oldest foods. O, olive, I love thee for your ancient wisdom and because you’re one of the oldest continuously savored foods in the world. O, olive, I love thee because the Mediterranean Diet wouldn’t […]
What is Trahana? One of the World’s Oldest Foods. The Original Slow Fast Food! Trahana is one of the oldest foods in the Eastern Mediterranean, a tiny, pebble-shaped grain product that varies widely all over Greece. For the most part it evolved as an ingenious way to preserve milk. Trahana is made with either semolina, […]
What is Haloumi Cheese?Haloumi (ha-LOO-mee) is the national cheese of Cyprus but is also popular in Turkey and the Arab world. Haloumi traditionally is made with sheep’s milk, but nowadays is also produced with a combination of sheep’s and cow’s milk. The cheese has two distinct characteristics: its square or rectangular, relatively flat, folded shape […]
Beans and pulses are among the traditional Greek foods. For eons, these simple, healthful ingredients have been staples of the kitchen, an easy, economical, nutritious way to feed body and soul alike. Although Greeks consume many different kinds of beans and pulses, the oldest are no doubt the broad bean, the chick pea and the […]
When I was a young bride, we did what almost every Greek couple at the time used to do: head to our parents for Sunday lunch. I was living in Greece, so that inevitably meant heading to my in-laws, since my family was all in New York. Lunch was always centered by some sort of […]
I am often asked, “What is the best Greek wine?” Of course, there is no answer to that question, since there are so many great Greek wines and taste is so subjective. Here are a few things to know and to look for. Greek Grape Varietals Greek wines generally are made either exclusively with Greek […]
Like many potato lovers, my earliest memories of the humble spud are linked to Sunday family dinners, to a dark, glistening roast that my mother hovered over, matter-of-factly satisfied by the proper, telling smells of garlic and oregano seeping out of our oven, and to a ricer, which to my child’s eyes was as good […]
NINE WAYS FORWARD WITH PLANT-BASED DISHES. TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE OFFERINGS GREEK CUISINE SERVES UP! Animal protein is on a lot of people’s minds. Americans and Western Europeans eat way too much of it. The World Health Organization derided red meat and processed meats as carcinogenic in a much-publicized report a few […]
SAVORING THESSALONIKI — GREECE’S SECOND CITY IS FIRST FOR FOOD Greece’s second city is first in food, a well-kept secret to those in the know that’s now out of the bag, thanks to the venerable paper of record, the New York Times, which a few days ago listed Thessaloniki as number 47 on a […]
I had an epiphany of sorts just the other day at my sister’s house in New York, where we have been spending the holidays. She had just come back from the supermarket, keen, after a little sisterly nagging, on trying to work more vegetables into the family diet. (Mind you, we grew up in the […]